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For information, please email [email protected] or write to Special Sales Department, The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142. This book was set in Stone Sans and Stone Serif by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited, Hong Kong. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hui, Alexandra, 1980– The psychophysical ear : musical experiments, experimental sounds, 1840–1910 / Alexandra Hui. p. cm. — (Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-262-01838-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Psychoacoustics— History — 19th century. 2. Psychoacoustics— History — 20th century. 3. Sound— Experiments— HIstory — 19th century. 4. Sound— Experiments — History — 20th century. 5. Avant-garde (Music)— History — History — 19th century. 6. Avant-garde (Music)— History — History — 20th century. I. Title. QP461.H85 2013 612.8'54 — dc23 2012015463 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For my family Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1 Gustav Fechner, the Day View, and the Origins of Psychophysics 1 2 From Sonically Moving Forms to Inaudible Undertones: The New Musical Aesthetics of A. B. Marx, Eduard Hanslick, and Hugo Riemann 23 3 Sound Materialized and Music Reconciled: Hermann Helmholtz 55 4 The Aesthetics of Attention: Ernst Mach’ s Accommodation Experiments, His Psychophysical Musical Aesthetics, and His Friendship with Eduard Kulke 89 5 The Bias of M usikbewusstsein When Listening in the Laboratory, on the City Streets, and in the Field 123 Coda 149 Appendix: Musical Terms and Musical Notation 155 Notes 157 References 207 Index 225 Acknowledgments The benefi cial conversations ranging from lengthy discussions in graduate school seminars to brief exchanges in elevators at academic conferences are too numerous to individually acknowledge every person that has contributed to this work. Several individuals nevertheless require special acknowledgment. Earlier versions of this book were read by Joel Braslow, Alfred Kramer, Mitchell Morris, Ted Porter, and Norton Wise, truly mein Doktorvater . I would also like to thank Horst-Peter Braun, Alison Greene, Paul Josephson, James Kennaway, Julia Kursell, Matthew Lavine, Theresa Leavitt, and Thomas Sturm for valuable criticisms and reactions to portions of this work. The editors at the MIT Press have also provided excellent attention and care, and I must express additional thanks to Elizabeth Judd, my manuscript editor, for her hawkeyed scrutiny. I especially wish to thank Myles Jackson and Peter Pesic for their painstakingly thorough and thoughtful reading of the book manuscript. This book is far better for all of these scholars ’ advice. I would also like to express my gratitude to Lorraine Daston, for hosting me in Department II at the Max-Plank-Instistut f ü r Wissenschaft- geschichte in Berlin as I completed my archival research as a graduate student. It was the rich and rigorous environment of the MPIWG that sealed my commitment to becoming an academic. Not least, I must thank my colleagues in the Department of History at Mississippi State University as well as the members of the “ Long Eighteenth Century” reading group at That School Up North. I am truly grateful for their support and collegial- ity. Mississippi has become, to my great surprise and delight, an intellectual home. In Germany, Austria, and the United States I received assistance from the archival staff at a number of libraries and research facilities. Special thanks to the librarians of the Max-Planck-Institut f ü r Wissenschaftgeschichte,
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